Composer Rita Veneziale finds herself at home both in film and concert music. Over the last four years, she has collaborated with multiple filmmakers, composing scores and soundtracks for animated films, and has completed rescores and participated in film music contests. In 2022 Rita conducted her score for Snowman (directed by Diane Lee) live-to-picture at Beston Hall, the first time a live-to-picture film was presented at Nazareth University.

In the concert music arena, Rita has written orchestral, chamber and solo works. Her orchestral piece Chernobyl, depicting the 1986 nuclear disaster and its aftermath, won the X Nazareth University Composition Competition and premiered with the Nazareth University Symphony Orchestra in April 2024. Rita has also written big band charts, including February, Without You, and Rolling Highway. 

Following her studies with composers Dr. Octavio Vazquez and Harry Stafylakis, Rita graduated from Nazareth University in May 2024 with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, and minors in Music History, Music Theory, Contemporary Commercial Music, and Entertainment and Recording Industry. Starting in the Fall, she will begin her studies for a Masters in Contemporary Media/Film Composition from the Beal Institute at the Eastman School of Music.